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And this is the time when Odets, O'Neil, Arthur Miller, Lillian Hellman should be read by every school kid growing up in towns like Darien and re-read by every thinking adult. ... Surely, someone in Darien could ...
Staged reading of Lillian Hellman's classic play ‘The Children’s Hour’ Saturday
Trumbull Times There will be a staged reading of Lillian Hellman’s classic play, “The Children’s Hour,” presented by Fifth Letter Productions and The Performing Arts Center of Connecticut on Saturday, May 31 at 7 p.m.
Letters to the Editor
We have all the plays written by Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller and Lillian Hellman; quite an extensive collection.
What Lillian Hellman's Maid Saw / Memoir details 17-year-old's summer with the legendary writer
The subtle memoir "A Likely Story: One Summer With Lillian Hellman" recounts the season when Rosemary Mahoney -- today the award-winning author of "Whoredom in Kimmage," but then a 17- year-old with a ...
A history of LGBTQ+ representation in film
Homosexual relations between consenting adults were illegal in England and Wales until 1967, making the film a radical cry against British homophobia. 1961: ‘The Children’s Hour’ portrays sympathetic yet ...
Bay Area arts and entertainment picks, Dec. 4
Date Lines Today’s picks Chronicle Staff Report “Watch on the Rhine”: For Berkeley Rep, Lisa Peterson directs Lillian Hellman’s 1941 drama that pits an anti-fascist activist against a Nazi sympathizer, ...
Audrey, Shirley and Meryl light up cable screens this weekend
Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine star in this adaptation of Lillian Hellman’s play. 6 p.m.
RHS begins theater year with a drama
The Ridgefield Press The Ridgefield High School Visual and Performing Arts Department will stage Lillian Hellman’s drama The Children’s Hour during November in the Anne S. ... The Children’s Hour was ...
Family Movie Menu: A League of Their Own, Rocky, Grease and more
., POP The Little Foxes (1941): An intense family in the South looks for ways to make each other uncomfortable in this movie version of Lillian Hellman’s play. 8 p.m., TCM Saturday, May 25 Rocky (1976): An ...
Movie Menu: Moneyball, Sabrina, The Devil Wears Prada and more
., TCM The Children’s Hour (1961): Audrey Hepburn and Shirley MacLaine try to avoid the gossip of young children in this film adaptation of the play by Lillian Hellman. 12:30 p.m., TCM My Fair Lady (1964): ...
Final weekend of The Children’s Hour
The Lillian Hellman drama is directed by Sherry Cox and features Bea Altopp as Mary, Eleanor Andresen as Karen, Emily Parker as Martha, Evan Smolin as Dr.
Bringing up the dead with Mo Rocca
The book’s introduction includes a snippet of an interview one of Rocca’s “CBS Sunday Morning” colleagues did with filmmaker Nora Ephron, who discussed a musical “Imaginary Friends,” about writers ...
Former local lawyer, actor wrote book to kids before death at 58
“He was a man of class,” said Zahn, who continued to perform with McKenna over the years, including a 2013 production of Lillian Hellman’s “The Little Foxes” at Theater Voice in Albany.
1941 antifascist drama newly relevant in 2017
Theater Dangers of fascism explored in ‘Rhine’ By Lily Janiak Just as the trains always ran on time in Nazi Germany, so does domesticity adhere to a strict schedule in the grand home of Fanny Farrelly, the ...
Tony Awards 2017: Westport native gets nomination
RogersSweat, Author: Lynn Nottage Best Musical Come From Away Dear Evan Hansen Groundhog Day The Musical Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 Best Revival of a Play August Wilson’s Jitney Lillian Hellman...
Bay Area arts and entertainment picks, Jan. 18
“The Children’s Hour”: Shotgun Players’ staged reading series turns to Lillian Hellman’s groundbreaking 1934 drama about homophobia destroying two women’s lives. 7 p.m.
Actress Laurie Metcalf, an Edwardsville native, hometown girl wins Tony Award
Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play: Cynthia Nixon, “Lillian Hellman’s The Little Foxes.”
Willowridge High School’s Theatre Group to present “The Children’s Hour” on Dec. 5-8
From FBISD Willowridge High School's Theatre Arts Department will present Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour on December 5, 6 and 7 at 6:00 pm, and December 8 at 3:00 pm in the school’s McNair ...
A ‘Watch’ that seems to move very slowly
Lillian Hellman’s 1941 drama, directed by Lisa Peterson, is the kind of play in which characters spend an incomprehensible amount of time idly riffling through the bills and advertisements that come in the ...
This Week’s Movie Menu: Grease, Field of Dreams, Rocky, Twister, The Sting & more
TCM Sunday, Oct. 1 The Little Foxes (1941) Bette Davis pretends her family is happy, connected and supportive in this memorable film from Lillian Hellman’s Southern drama.